February 2017 update

The Battlefield Tour has been cancelled. Although this is disappointing, it has been a worthwhile experience in working out how people visit the battlesites of Africa. Watch this space for futher developments allowing you to do your own tours.

A WW1 Africa connection who is not a member brought this to my attention – it shows Smuts also got annoyed with the South African generals – van Deventer. Details do need to be checked as Tighe returned to India in March 1916 – the image suggests he was still around in December 1916.

A book on the Mendi, Troopship Mendi: The Black Titanic by Nick Ward is available.
The African Chapter of The Times History of the War
Michelle Moyd has an article in the July 2016 First World War Studies journal (vol 7:2): Centring a sideshow: local experiences of the First World War in Africa

A special edition of Scientia Militaria has been published on The Union at War 1914-1953. Papers can be found on the website.

Projects
The GWAA was part of a bid with Away From the Western Front: the medical project previously mentioned
Here’s confirmation of the bid’s success. Anyone interested in participating, please get in touch.